Missing the Mark

[Delagus]

Recently, I decided to take up Marksmanship. My initial unskilled attempt resulted in my bonking a mouflon on the head and aggroing the entire herd. Interesting fact, mouflons are apparently carnivorous. After raising Marksmanship to level 21 and going out with a q10 sling, I figured I would have better luck. Yet, I am finding that whereas my attack meter charged very slowly before, now it does not charge at all. I simply stand there until the enemy gets too close, or I get bored and attack, and always miss.

Am I overlooking something?


-Del

[TeckXKnight]

Accuracy is determined by distance, Marksmanship, the quality of your weapon, and how much the target is moving. If you're further away than you were before it'd go up much slower and progress would be lost every time the animal moves.

[painhertz]

Accuracy is determined by distance, Marksmanship, the quality of your weapon, and how much the target is moving. If you're further away than you were before it'd go up much slower and progress would be lost every time the animal moves.

Negative. "Aiming" is dependent on those things. Accuracy is dependent on what % of the aiming bar is full and theres question to even this. I generally fire at 30-50% and have a higher hit ratio than when i get in full green and a lot of others have found this to be true as well.

[Delagus]

As it turns out, I am idiot. I was intent on trying my new range skills on ants, oblivious to the fact that movement affected charge speed, which was why the meter was dead. One fox, two boars, a broken boat, two less boars, and one less fox later I think I have a decent grasp of how this works.

Thanks for the replies!

[JinxDevona]

Um, were you trapping the mouflon first? Then you can stand really close making your aim work faster. Foxes you can trap as well but they will break through to get to you, but they won't break through backwards to run away, so it keeps them from running.

[TheTylerLee]

As it turns out, I am idiot. I was intent on trying my new range skills on ants, oblivious to the fact that movement affected charge speed, which was why the meter was dead. One fox, two boars, a broken boat, two less boars, and one less fox later I think I have a decent grasp of how this works.

Thanks for the replies!

if your sling is 10 QL , you wont gain any Aim speed by having over 20 MM

if your sling is 40 QL, you wont have any aiming speed for 80+ mm

Also dont fire at 100% accuracy,

Fire as soon as you see a little green (around 65%) for best accuracy,

why ?

you hit more often in my opinion, and you do more damage over time since your not waiting those 5 extra seconds ;p